Fondazione Grameen Italia
Updated: 06/02/2018
Challenge owner, Solution provider
ItalyGrameen Italia
was born in 2010, thanks to the cooperation among University of Bologna,
Grameen Trust and Unicredit Foundation.
It is a non-profit organization that
pursues exclusively social solidarity objectives and has as its main goal the
study and the promotion of the microfinance and the microcredit in Italy and
Europe, according to the principles inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, for
the support of the autonomous work and/or entrepreneurship and also for
sanitary or educational needs or for the purchase of housing in favor of those
who due to their race, geographical provenance, social status, gender, age or
other circumstances do not have access or have insufficient access to the
traditional credit channels.
Mission
Promotion and diffusion of Grameen
microcredit model in Italy and in Europe.
Vision
Grameen Italia Foundation intends to offer its contribution to guarantee financial and social inclusion of the most vulnerable populations by promoting alternative and sustainable economic models capable of restoring the centrality of the man.